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W. COLE, Jr. TOBACCO KNIFE.

No. 592,538. Patented Oct. 26,1897.

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Nrrnn STATES PATENT FFICE.

'WARREN COLE, J R OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TOJAMES C. WOODWARD AND IVALTER WOODWARD, OF SAME PLACE.

TOBACCO-KNIFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,538, dated October26, 1897. Application filed June 4, 1897. Serial No. 639,445. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VARREN COLE, Jr., a citizen of the United States,residing at Knoxville, in the county of Knox and State of Tennessee,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Knives; andI do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an extremely cheap, durable,and simple device for cutting off portions of a plug of tobacco to chew,a device that can be applied to the plug itself in a superior manner andcan be readily removed for use, and then replaced on the plug andcarried with the latter in the pocket.

To this end my invention consists in the peculiar features andcombinations of parts more fully described hereinafter, and pointed outin the claims.

Inthe accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofmy device as applied to an ordinary plug of tobacco; Fig. 2, a side viewthereof, and Fig. 3 a perspective View of thedevice detached from theplug.

In the present instance I prefer to construct the device out of acontinuous piece of steel wire of any suitable size that will afford therequisite amount of resiliency and metal. This wire is bent to give itthe general outline of an elongated U ,with one prong extended beyondthe other to form a peculiarly-arranged knife.

The reference-letter (t represents the longer, and bthe shorter, of thetwo prongs. The end of the longer prong is flattened and thereby widenedinto the shape of a razor-blade c, curved back laterally out ofcoincidence with the longitudinal plane of the prong on which it ismade. This blade is thus shapedin order to lie flat upon the side of theplug of tobacco on which it is placed, with its cutting edge (I so closethereto that it will not cut the pocket or hand of the person handlingthe plug. It will be observed that the edgewise plane of the blade liessubstantially at right angles to the widest transverse plane of the bodyportion of the implement. The opposite or shorter arm I), beingresilient, has its free end 6 curved outwardly a short distance for thepurpose of facilitating the operation of passing the device astride ofthe end of a plug. The prongs should be closer together than thethickness of the plug, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, whereby whenthe short prong is pressed back and away from the long prong itsresiliency will clamp the plug tightly and hold the cutter securely uponit.

Some'of the advantages of my device are that it can be embedded in theplugs of tobacco as they are packed in the case, one or more in eachplug, and can in that way be used by the manufacturer as an advertisingmedium. They can be made in different sizes of spread to fit variousthicknesses of plugs.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described tobacco-cutting implement adapted to embrace aplug of tobacco, and consisting of an elongated and substantially Ushaped bar of metal having a resilient shorter prong provided with anoutwardly-turned end, in combination with a substantially parallel prongextended beyond the end of the opposite prong, and provided with a bladethe transverse plane of which lies substantially at right angles to thatof the body portion of the implement.

2. The herein-described tobacco-cutting implement adapted to embraceunder pressure aplug of tobacco, and consisting of a substantiallyU-shaped continuous bar of metal having a resilient shorter prongprovided with an outwardlyturned end, in combination with asubstantially parallel longer prong extended beyond the end of the otherprong, and having a widened blade thereon, the transverse plane of whichextends at right angles to the transverse plane of the body portion ofthe implement, and being curved laterally out of coincidence With thelongitudinal plane of the prong on which it is made.

3. The herein-described tobacco-cutting implement consisting of acontinuous metal bar, U -shaped in general outline, and adapted to claspunder pressure a plug of tobacco, one of the prongs being extendedbeyond the other, and provided with a knife-edge bev= 1o eled on bothsides, and the other short-er arm having its end beveled outwardly tofacilitate passing the device astride a plug of tobacco, substantiallyas described.

In Witness whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WVARREN COLE, JR.

Witnesses:

J. O. WooDWARD, R. J ARNAGIN.

